tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post6730406224458483463..comments2024-03-11T19:40:23.089+00:00Comments on Views from the bike shed: New year; and a new resolveThe bike shedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195882998271591934noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-9044003892163252022011-01-17T16:00:30.291+00:002011-01-17T16:00:30.291+00:00Ditto Deb’s, I too avoid crap tv and whinging, moc...Ditto Deb’s, I too avoid crap tv and whinging, mocking cynics like the plague. I will continue to be enlightened and better informed by listening to my magnificent twenty something year old kids. And to continue striving to emulate the manner, substance, reasoning and countless selfless examples my late Father left for me to follow in his eternal wake.Bish Bosh Bashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311092711040714994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-44713213497650523392011-01-11T02:44:43.747+00:002011-01-11T02:44:43.747+00:00Thanks much for posting this! It will help with my...Thanks much for posting this! It will help with my own list, and I agree with your wonderful friend Debs.ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11376645220662546020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-5311831687179194002011-01-10T22:55:23.819+00:002011-01-10T22:55:23.819+00:00thank you for the reminder - I've been away si...thank you for the reminder - I've been away since New Year and was about to just carry on as usual but I need to think ahead some more and focus on the important things, and stop the crap from taking over...this has come in the nick of time!Lunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-52867444682929827822011-01-06T14:46:55.884+00:002011-01-06T14:46:55.884+00:00Very deep, very good. Me, I'm just happy to be...Very deep, very good. Me, I'm just happy to be alive. (Though I have made a couple of resolutions.Grumpy Old Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828200865710133059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-61475969000841596662011-01-05T18:51:55.441+00:002011-01-05T18:51:55.441+00:00After a lifelong friend who was just one month you...After a lifelong friend who was just one month younger than me died unexpectedly last year it finally dawned on me that there is no guarantee of anything in life - so stop worrying and enjoy it.<br /><br />My job changed, my wage halved, I don't own a car anymore, I also don't worry about anything and I truly care for very few things that I always thought were important.<br /><br />And life is great.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-50504319122472824022011-01-05T16:09:28.386+00:002011-01-05T16:09:28.386+00:00Well Mark, as you know, psychologists say it's...Well Mark, as you know, psychologists say it's not generally the things we actually do that we regret the most, it's the things we don't do that haunt us.Saranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-311699138650442022011-01-05T11:16:23.292+00:002011-01-05T11:16:23.292+00:00I'm going to have to re-write my resolutions ....I'm going to have to re-write my resolutions ... again!! What an excellent post, and what an excellent friend Deb is. Ditching TV and negativity would make life so much more exciting. (Except for the groans from the children if they weren't able to watch the box: really, they are the only reason we keep it!)Catharine Withenayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06936767499911371984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-86201250228316822002011-01-05T02:06:25.529+00:002011-01-05T02:06:25.529+00:00I don't make New Year Resolutions, but what De...I don't make New Year Resolutions, but what Deb came up with made sense to me.<br /><br />Since Mr. Fly has been really very ill, as opposed to just ill, we have cut down our life to essentials...and now there is a slight improvement in his life we are sticking to those same essentials...no crap from the exterior.<br /><br />I had wanted to comment on your last post but it brought up so many angles that the comment..even if formulated..would have been longer than the post. So I failed.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-62394076040238548952011-01-04T21:08:29.185+00:002011-01-04T21:08:29.185+00:00This is a great post. I wish I had included not b...This is a great post. I wish I had included not being around negative people in my New Year post; I forgot and it is so important. They are so draining (and positive people are the opposite). The older we get the more we treasure time I think and fill it with what we truly desire.Cait O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04569760764766505179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-78727450671381654172011-01-04T21:08:04.338+00:002011-01-04T21:08:04.338+00:00Debs sounds like she puts her money where her mout...Debs sounds like she puts her money where her mouth is so I think you'd be safe to follow her advice.<br />Happy New Year to you Mark.<br />:-)Clippy Mathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15922234265229327474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-33727272505737611492011-01-04T18:19:46.694+00:002011-01-04T18:19:46.694+00:00Happy new Year Mark! we ditched the box when we ca...Happy new Year Mark! we ditched the box when we came here and 4 months later, we couldn't be happier.Kathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04003521059890699861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-2072170692923376262011-01-04T11:55:19.634+00:002011-01-04T11:55:19.634+00:00Happy New Year!
I gave up on NYRs when I started ...Happy New Year!<br /><br />I gave up on NYRs when I started my blog and just have 4 'New Life's Resolutions' as my guiding principles instead. Perhaps I need to add Deb's advice as number 5. It's sound :)<br /><br />Another blogging pal has resolved to do something she's not done before every single week this year. I rather like that one and it doesn't have to be complicated stuff either. Just simply going somewhere else, even a different cafe to the one that's become the norm has the potential for new seeing and opportunities to explore...<br /><br />Perhaps we should reject meeting up at Allington Farm Shop and select somewhere in Chippenham neither of us have been to before?VPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-59093453912067688502011-01-04T11:30:18.598+00:002011-01-04T11:30:18.598+00:00I reached 60 last December, which was one heck of ...I reached 60 last December, which was one heck of an achievement for me, for all sorts of personal reasons, and I decided there and then not to waste my time, my tears, my energy on people who didn't deserve it, on watching 'crap TV' simply because I couldn't be arsed to get up and do something else. Since I am rather asocial, or antisocial (never sure which is correct) having to listen to boring or negative people doesn't enter my life anyway!<br />I never ever make resolutions, never have a list of places I want to go, things I want to try for the first time, because I simply cannot guarantee being able to do any of them, again for personal reasons. But I do have intentions... somehow they are less stringent that resolutions, you don't have to beat yourself up if you don't tick them off the list. I intend joining English Heritage, learning to let go of old resentments and hurt, trying not to be such a control freak, and try new veggies in the garden!<br />Happy New Year...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-27793171135597352592011-01-04T08:02:15.931+00:002011-01-04T08:02:15.931+00:00"The important thing is not to waste your ene..."The important thing is not to waste your energy on things like crap TV or negative people or conversations that you've heard a hundred times before." Yep. Says it all. I may have to make that my mantra.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-2565848353148587862011-01-04T00:52:46.319+00:002011-01-04T00:52:46.319+00:00"not to waste my energy on crap TV, negative ..."not to waste my energy on crap TV, negative people or conversations I've heard a hundred times before"....you hit the nail on the head there! I want to read your post at the end of 2011 and see how that all goes..or went. Will you be successful?<br /><br />But being in the doldrums is not all bad...and if you have truly experienced nature's doldrums..as I have..you would have seen patterned swaths of beautiful seaweed you wouldn't have noticed if it were not for the calm...floating turtles asleep on the surface of the sea...sun with immense heat..a time to reflect when you can't do a darn thing to change the course of the day. So, doldrums are not so bad, I don't think.Gardeningbrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10709940044197929905noreply@blogger.com